Newsletter NewsletterSAF of the Sensory Awareness Foundation Spring 2006 In This Issue Presence and Absence by Seymour Carter 1 In A Heartbeat SAF Co-President’s Letter 3 Reclaiming Vitality and Presence Reports from a student of “I Wish I Could Write Myself In Our Troubled World To Death Or To Life...” 6 by Felicitas Voigt Experiential Sensory Awareness Conference Sensory Awareness Conference Mount Madonna Center, CA SAF Publications 8 October 13 - 15, 2006 All photos in this issue by Stefan Laeng-8 Gilliatt, except page 1 and the picture of Find out more on page 8. Felicitas Voigt.

Presence and Absence Seymour Carter shares his experiences exploring the elusive “I” through Sensory Join us Awareness and psychotherapy. in our effort to nurture the By 1967, the year I first met , I had been working as a student practice of Sensory Awareness. trainer and group dynamics leader for at least three years. I was living at , and I had been exposed to a panoply of psychotherapy systems. I was using The basis of this work is to support the the encounter group model, based on Will Schultz’s confrontational methods, which capacity within each person to be present was to search for and expose emotional lapses. The kicking and screaming models of and responsive to what is needed within ourselves, in our relationships with others Lowen’s Bioenergetics were mixed in this witch’s brew of dynamic group interaction. and in our environment, and to con- It was 60s pop psychology at its best and worst. The process, using several techniques, tribute to a more connected and caring was a dramatic enactment of the client’s emotional issues. Our main focus was on world from one moment to the next. evoking aggression and sexuality in people who did not know how to handle aggres- Please renew your membership for sion or sexuality. 2006 or become a new member of the One day in 1967, I walked into our main meeting room at Esalen, and I saw it had Sensory Awareness Foundation. Our been arranged beautifully - wonderfully scented straw mats with Indian rugs on them, work is only possible with the help of flowers placed in the room and, at the head of the room, a sheep skin rug with some your contributions. kind of headset apparatus lying upon it. The room was empty and spacious. I thought (For more information see page 3.) to myself, “This is the first time at Esalen that am I encountering a display of some aesthetic taste and pleasure.” Esalen was rustic and ragged at that time with very lit- tle taste displayed anywhere on the property. This scene in our meeting room made me (continued on page 2) wonder why the headset was there and what this group was felt sense of presence. We’re trying to reach beyond our con- about. I thought, “I’m going to come back here and check it ditioned habits whereby we let the organism’s functions have out.” foreground in our attention field. In standing, by paying close I came back later and found Charlotte Selver directing a attention to how gravity is affecting our weight and our struc- class with the headset on her head. She had difficulty hearing. ture and how we are breathing in response to all of these phe- In the room were many people standing with stones on their nomena, we begin to feel where balance can occur in us and heads. I was intrigued by this scene, so I slipped in unnoticed, how restoration can be activated. put a stone on my head, and began to follow Charlotte’s explo- Doing an experiment in sensing such as with gravity and ration. She was working with finding balance with our weight weight is philosophically going from a universal to a particu- and with the weight of the stone. I was astonished that I could lar. While exploring our weight, the experiments are directed to explore my sensory experience in such a delicate and accurate the experience of our weight in our joints and tissues directly, way. It seemed to deepen the texture of the awareness that I’d moment by moment. The teacher takes the universal notion, gotten from the psychotherapy, meditation, and LSD experi- weight, and unpacks it into the here and now phenomenologi- ences I had been involved in since the early 60s. However, the cal experience. And the same strategy works in many domains Sensory Awareness practice was significantly more subtle and of human experience. We take an instance like fear and ask the differentiated. person to describe exactly What amazed me was that The critical clinical innovators, in my view, where and how they experi- Charlotte’s work seemed to link were , Virginia Satir, ence their fear. This inter- together many of the realms of vention changes the client my previous explorations, and it Charlotte Selver, and Milton Erickson. from being dissociated from also provided me an avenue that They provided the strategies for intervening their experience to being my Zen practice had not at that with the present moment’s emergent properties reflectively engaged in their time. The Zen Buddhist literature and taught us the power of the now experience, here and now. I was reading implied that my to transform a person’s life. Thus, another key to the Zen practice was going to evoke work is to guide a person a state of presence and con- into the here and now expe- sciousness that would be significantly different from the ordi- rience of themselves or, as Charlotte might say, to the “imme- nary, but my experience was that it had not. The practice diacy of it all.” seemed to mostly consist of learning to sit in a painful and rigid posture. In my study of psychotherapy, my belief is that Jung and Freud were not the major clinical geniuses of the 20th century. During Sensory Awareness classes, we begin to tune in to Their foundationalist conceptions of deeper motivational strata our inner life: the pulses, the streaming of warmth, the shifts in in human personalities – i.e.: unconscious drives, the collective balance, the rhythms of our breathing, etc. This inner search for unconscious, etc. – are seen to be culturally located construc- the natural reactivity of our organism to its surroundings helps tions, not universals, but artifacts of a particular culture (see: us recover from being out of touch with our organic life. For Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend, edited by me, the Sensory Awareness practice of searching for our home- Frederick Crews, The Jung Cult : Origins of a Charismatic ostatic balance was missing in all the other Western therapeu- Movement, by Richard Noll). The critical clinical innovators, in tic methods in which I had been trained. None of the other my view, were Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, Charlotte Selver, and practices had this piece of what happens when an organism Milton Erickson. They provided the strategies for intervening comes to rest and balance. with the present moment’s emergent properties and taught us Resting is an important part of presence, an important part the power of the now to transform a person’s life. of health and healing, of the rhythm of life. Sensory Awareness I believe, both Gestalt Therapy and Sensory Awareness is dealing with our sensory/motor phenomena. By focusing on are forms of meditative trance. My understanding and imple- these phenomena, we are focusing on what I would say is the mentation of this has been mostly helped by Milton Erickson’s autonomic system of self-functioning. Many of our habitual work and studies. These practices clearly fit the Ericksonian muscular tension patterns are creating problems in our func- definition of trance phenomena. tioning. Sensory Awareness practice teaches us to tune into our I think students of Sensory Awareness should look into organismicly driven restorative activities. When we are tuned Milton Erickson’s work, particularly his teaching of how to use to the autonomic nervous system, the breathing patterns and one’s voice, rhetoric, and observations of clients’ behavior for the muscular tension patterns that are creating our daily aches enhancing the rapport between oneself as a guide and the per- and pains can be relieved. We enter into a discreet and distinct son exploring their here and now awareness, for exploring their state of being. individual search. In Sensory Awareness practices we are not focusing on Here I will quote from Milton Erickson and Ernest Rossi dreams. We’re not focusing on emotions. We are not focusing in “Hypnotic Realities” on two definitions of trance: on our inner narrative monologue. We are trying to enter into a 2 (continued on page 4) SAF Co-President’s Letter Watsonville, California, October 13 - 15, 2006. The confer- ence will give a larger audience the opportunity to rediscover Dear Friends of the Sensory Awareness Foundation, the relevance of Sensory Awareness. What is Sensory Awareness? This question is posed to me The conference will be preceded by a two-day meeting of very often. Yet, the answer to this seemingly very simple ques- Sensory Awareness leaders (practitioners): Honoring the Past tion never comes easy. I have always liked the name Charlotte – Creating the Future. It will be a rare opportunity for lead- Selver gave this work, although it can be misleading. Charlotte ers from all over the world to meet and explore how to bring was very aware of the danger of naming what she offered and this work forward today. often worried that Sensory Awareness had become but a brand name or, as she put it, a Oral History Project: I am stamp. The practice of Sensory working on collecting an oral Awareness is much more than history of Charlotte Selver. simply being aware. Awareness While Charlotte was alive I is only the beginning, a prereq- spent many hours with her to uisite for a life lived in har- record her life story. Now, I mony with biological need to interview Charlotte’s conditions and responsive to long-time students, friends everyday demands. Life seems and family. As many of them to always require new answers, are old it is very important to new solutions that can only do this now. This is a long- emerge from the lived moment. time project and final publica- And this is what Sensory tion is planned for a future Awareness is about; it is a prac- date but we hope to offer some tice that re-connects us with the glimpses at the conference. “immediacy of it all”, as Monhegan Square House: Seymour Carter suggests in his Charlotte’s former summer article. “I attended a workshop of Judith Weaver in Japan. home needs a completely new The two feature articles in It was wonder-ful literally. I have been trying septic system by the end of this newsletter embrace this to be awake since. I wish all people in the world this year. question from different angles could have the opportunity to wake up. All levels of support are and from different time peri- appreciated. A regular mem- ods. The beauty of our work at I hope SAF develops.” bership is only $50 per year. the Sensory Awareness Dr. Yuji Sawaguchi, Japan Donations in excess of the reg- Foundation is that we can share ular membership help us diverse writings like these with tremendously in our work to secure the financial future of the you, from people who have been deeply touched by the prac- Sensory Awareness Foundation. If one of these projects is par- tice Charlotte called Sensory Awareness. But our work is only ticularly close to your heart, consider a special donation. We possible with your help. will gladly provide you with more information about your cho- This year, we have a number of projects that are crucial for sen project. the future of Sensory Awareness. They need the full support of everyone who has been touched by this work. Here is what Sincerely, requires our attention now: Sensory Awareness - Reclaiming Vitality and Presence, Stefan Laeng-Gilliatt writings by Charlotte Selver and Charles Brooks. This revised and updated edition of Charles Brooks classic is scheduled to be published by North Atlantic Books in February of 2007. SAF Newsletter Film Project: We are currently working on a film that will Editing & Design: Stefan Laeng-Gilliatt show Charlotte Selver sharing her wisdom in workshops. We Send your comments to: S. Laeng-Gilliatt, 2300 W Alameda are hoping to show the film publicly for the first time at the St. A3, Santa Fe, NM 87507; email: [email protected] upcoming conference listed below. It will then be available on The deadline for the next newsletter is October 31, 2006. DVD. © 2006 Sensory Awareness Foundation In A Heart Beat - Sensory Awareness Conference 955 Vernal Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 Experiential Conference at Mount Madonna Center near www.sensoryawareness.org 3 “Definition One: Trance viewed as inner-directed states: rhetorical ploy is expanded and repeated in the ways of phras- Trance phenomena may be understood in the broadest sense as ing our indications and questions. When I teach students to lead inner-directed states wherein the multiple foci of attention so experiments in Sensory Awareness, their major handicap is that characteristic of our usual, everyday consciousness are they frame their indications in stark dualism, i.e. “Pay attention restricted to relatively few inner realities. Because of this to your body and not your thinking.” restricted focus, new learning can proceed more sensitively In our classes we cannot say, “Do A and not B.” We can and intensely in trance when the patient is not interrupted by say, “Do you sense any distinction between A and B?” I try to irrelevant stimuli and the limitations of his usual frames of ref- frame my indications in open ended phrases, such as “Are you erence.” alert at this moment, or are you feeling somewhat depleted? “Definition Two: Trance viewed as a highly-motivated You may find a mixture of those in you, alertness and deple- state: Erickson carefully notes tion.” I try to move people away and utilizes a person’s personal from their “either/or” categories psychodynamics and motivation in terms of what they permit as for initiating and developing an acceptable response. This trance experience. It is a patient’s comes from Korzybski’s General motivation that will bind them to Semantics: “either/or” thinking their task of inner focus. It is this is switched to “both/and” think- uniquely personal motivation that ing to resolve dualism in our may account for some of the dif- logic, opening the possibility that ferences found between labora- someone can feel a pain and not tory hypnosis, where try to run away from it, to feel standardized methods are used, anguish and feel that it is part of and clinical hypnosis where the themselves, not something sepa- patient’s individuality is of rate from themselves. essence in the approaches used for trance induction and utiliza- Charlotte’s work also tion. Trance is thus an active helped me become more accurate process of unconscious learning in my work as a Gestalt therapist. somewhat akin to the process of I began to be able to track micro- latent learning or learning with- movements of the people, e.g., out awareness described in their breathing patterns. The experimental psychology.” sensing methodology seemed to be a practice based on what we The Sensory Awareness now call our body or our sen- class leader is also in a trance sory/motor expressions. When I state, in the sense that they are work with clients, I pay attention focusing on one aspect of their to a suite of activities such as inner experience. While they’re their word choice, their breathing leading the class, for example in patterns, where they are gazing, standing, they are entering into a and the flash of emotion in their kind of trance, meaning, a disciplined inner focus. They focus eyes. I also observe the color of their features, how the blood on the minute details of their inner functioning and balancing flows in to their face, their vitality and the way they enter and in order to awaken the homeostatic processes in their organism. leave the present moment. As they are doing that they are transmitting their discoveries to Here is an example of how I bring the sensing work into the class participants by articulating their search in the form of a therapy session. Someone comes to me and they’re curled up questions: “Can you feel what you are standing on? Are you in the chair telling me their story. I ask them to begin to explore able to respond to the floor? Do you feel anything in your legs themselves by sitting up more, letting them expand and take up and feet responding to the support under you?” more space in the world. Well, right away that’s a central exis- tential conflict, because their posture is expressing their shrink- Charlotte’s work has taught me the importance of seman- ing away from the world. They become anxious because tics and rhetoric, saying the right words in the right order, and they’ve developed no identity about sitting up and entering the the language of open options. For example, she would set up an world. When they sit up, their breathing is beginning to be dif- experiment of touching your face, and then she would ask a ficult. They don’t have the breathing patterns that go with that question: “What do you experience?” That’s an open-ended confrontation; they begin to control their breath and not let question and rhetorically it allows the student to find out for themselves breathe freely. They are trying to manage the flood- themselves. She doesn’t say what’s going to happen. Now that ing of anxiety about being so exposed. Very gently, step by step 4 in micro-increments, I begin to encourage them to let in their moment and to not introduce the dichotomy of expecting to be emotions and to cope with their feelings, often feeling states someone else other than who I am. which they have not let into awareness. One more example would be to examine how the person Lest this all sound too deterministic, I’d like to close with a looks at the world. I have found that following a person’s gaze quote from the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy: “Self: The as they look at their surroundings also indicates what they’re elusive ‘I’ which has an alarming tendency to disappear when contacting in their surroundings and what they’re avoiding. For we try to introspect it.” Now that I am an old man, I can say example, often depressives walk around with a gaze that is that my lifetime has been about exploring what it means to fixed on the floor about six feet in front of them. What I ask have a personal identity, and the curious nature of its presences them to do is to lift up their head and look around. They are and absences. afraid to look out, or they don’t have the coping skills to look at the world. And these are central existential questions about meeting the world in order to cope with it. The examples I have just given are both examples of Sensory Awareness tactics applied to both the inner world of one’s subjec- tivity and the connec- tion to the outer world of people and things.

I had a severe heart attack in March of 2005. During the process I knew I was dying and was accepting dying quite gracefully and gratefully. I have lived a very full life and don’t have any major unfin- ished business. I have accomplished my life goals and the only thing left for me that I thought would be a good goal would be to have a good death. That of course means quick and sudden, and no lengthy lingering in a retirement home. So when I was hav- ing the heart attack I was accepting my dying as, “Okay, this Seymour Carter, Gestalt fits. Dying is fitting now. Let’s go.”…… I do not want to live to teacher at Esalen for more 102, like Charlotte Selver. than three decades, is a life- I was rescued by a medical miracle – a catheter and stent long student of the ever evolv- treatment that is used for heart attacks currently – and three ing models of personal identity. days later I was mostly okay. I’ve had worse acid trips. Yet I He teaches Gestalt Practice found that for the next six weeks or so, I was very resentful that and Sensory Awareness in the I was rescued from what I thought to be a good death. So US and Europe. He was a stu- instead of fighting that resentment, I accepted it: I resented dent of Fritz Perls at Esalen in being alive. I was going against the grain of common sense that the 60's, and has been a stu- says that I should be happy to be alive. As I move out of the dent of Charlotte Selver since feeling of resentment and start enjoying life again, I can look 1967. He combines studies in back and realize I didn’t split myself. I let myself be. In some family systems theory with Buddhism, Sensory Awareness and sense that comes from Charlotte’s work, meditation, and the other Mind/Body oriented practices. hundreds of hours of psychotherapy I’ve done. In all of those experiences, the central theme is to accept who I am in the

5 “I Wish I Could Write Myself To Death Or To Life...” by Felicitas Voigt Velicitas Voigt studied with Elsa Gindler – who was also Charlotte Selver’s teacher – from 1949 through 1957. In the following we reprint brief excerpts from Voigt’s reports, written during that time. Such reports were an integral part of working with Gindler. Her students were asked to reflect on their experiences in class and everyday life in these journal-like writings, which were then submitted to Gindler. These reports were almost forgotten after Voigt stopped studying with Gindler. Voigt never read them again until she was approached by a group of people interested in Gindler’s work. Together, they spent a number of years studying and editing these papers. The result is a moving collection of very per- sonal reflections by Voigt about her own ‘attitude towards life’ and her work with Gindler. Felicitas Voigt in 1997 The following excerpts offer a glimpse into these rich writings. Voigt’s style of writing is very spontaneous, much as in a diary, and one can almost hear her talking to Gindler. In the translation from the German, some of that voice may have gotten lost. Many thanks go to Felicitas Voigt as well as Petra Möhrke and the group of editors who generously let us reprint these excerpts. (Translation by Stefan Laeng-Gilliatt)

December 14, 1949 Gindler mentioned two examples: 1. She used to call . . . Gindler explained that, because the faculties of the Heinrich Jacoby a radish, because his chest was so inflated and body have for years been used unskillfully, we have to go about with one rib sticking out, with the lower half of his trunk and the regeneration process slowly. She said that this is related to legs becoming ever slimmer. He is now fine, the rib is in its place and he can cross his legs and lift them up. None of us could do that. 2. She herself had a severe heart condition and would certainly have had angina pectoris by now, but on the contrary she hopes to heal completely. One student said he believed that would be possible, while another was still doubtful. Gindler: “You believe too much of what I say. You have to check if it is true and you have to experience for yourself how it is true. Ladies and Gentlemen, dear children (‘Herrschaften und Kinder’ – a way of addressing us that I have always felt comfortable with), it isn’t God that makes us well, that’s what common sense and reason are for, if applied skillfully.” No God will help us if we neglect our faculties, if we don’t make use of our strengths and if we are uncon- scious of our behavior. [...] Gindler made clear that we study matter in motion, that matter is not immovable, and that there is no movement without matter. . . .

May 5, 1950 the question of natural endowment: We claim that scoliosis pre- . . . An attempt to describe the effects of the workshops and vents us from lying – and later a participant added heart defects experiments and to sort them: I would say that the most won- to the list of incurable conditions. In both cases Gindler once derful change is that of clarity in my head or – to say it more mentioned: Do you realize how everyone holds on to their carefully – a head that is becoming clearer. The optical sense of “conditions”? We defend them as though they were our pos- fog is almost completely gone and when it appears, it is not as sessions. That was important to me. Isn’t it strange that we can impenetrable and I can feel how it fades. The dull feeling in my hardly conceive of the possibility of outgrowing our “condi- head, the pressure and strain, is also often completely gone and tions”, that we don’t remember our own abilities to challenge if it is there I am able to regulate it by becoming quiet and them? aligned. This happens almost on its own but I am conscious of what happens and that it happens. I trace all the effects back to 6 a willingness to experience (Erfahrbereitschaft). [....] With this the telephone receiver; entering the post office; [...] the work- clarity in my head I can suddenly think, or I can at least get a ers on the street [...] – I see all of this for the first time as glimpse of how thinking starts and works. This clod of speech- processes and social phenomena – I see figures, movement and lessness, which has been physically painful, is slowly dissolv- hear people speak. ing – it is still there but there’s also something new – as I Suddenly I recognize the connections, the interdepend- generally feel renewed. ence, the necessity of it all and I become suspicious of every- I experience as very positive that I am not as automatic in thing that is artificial and performed. I get glimpses of what I my reactions as I used to be. I’m more able to implement would call “realism”, I see it in a new context. It’s not just peo- insights into my daily life and thinking. I actually enjoy living ple I see differently now but things – a table, the pavement, – even though the circumstances are quite difficult. train tracks, screws, hinges, barrels, feathers, shoes, and so I also am more present and not always “occupied” and forth without an end. All these products tell a story of their pro- busy with the past or the future. I have not as many wishes and dreams, they are not eating me up as much and when I find myself dreaming and wishing for something, I can laugh at myself a bit and I don’t find it as intriguing but somehow useless and more like a flight from suddenly pressing tasks. Being less automatic in my responses also means that I don’t feel like smoking as much. The urge to eat has also lessened and is now more lim- ited to a real need for food. I had a particularly strong experience of pres- ence when I went to a concert. Never before had I heard and experienced music like this before. I arrived very tired and I was also depressed again but after the concert I felt renewed and trans- formed. This was confirmed by different people. Everybody who spoke with me, commended me for how good and lively I look. (.....) As a result of this evening I experienced the next day at work very differently. We had our internal political train- ing. This is an event which usually bores me to death and I usually feel irritated and annoyed all day. But this time I felt alive, interested, receptive. I felt like participating and wanting to process and adapt what I heard. I also observed a lot. I noticed the presen- ducer, of the process and the necessity of creativity – if indeed ters appearance and delivery, I asked myself questions and it is creativity – and not just wanting to get something done. thought about what I heard. Suddenly, I was processing every- thing instead of merely being a victim of circumstances. February 11, 1957 I generally feel pleasantly quiet and still. I am stronger and ... Gindler did not disapprove of “exercising”. She said that I feel more capable and receptive. I am not as fearful, if still there is a place for that too [...] But exercising does not go to quit insecure. I suddenly am more interested in everything and the root of our problems. For that, changes in our behavior most of all notice that I am thinking and there isn’t this terrible need to happen, so that we do not constantly interfere with our stagnation and pressure. I don’t feel driven and chased but own functioning; so that we are not killed over and over again, notice the quiet flow of the day, in which I am almost always because we have become strangers to ourselves. . . . present and awake. Even if the quiet flow is at times disturbed by eddies I surrender and don’t drown but instead resurface quite gaily. I have also been noticing changes in my voice, Felicitas Voigt’s selected protocols and reports are available in depending on my condition and the person I talk to. . . . German only. The book “Ich wünschte, ich könnte mich zu Tode oder lebendig May 22, 1951 schreiben...” . . . It is furthermore remarkable that, when I am in the city, can be ordered through Petra Möhrke, Mommsenstr. 3, I see all that’s happening around me as social phenomena: peo- 10629 Berlin, Germany; email: [email protected]. ple walking on the street; stepping into a streetcar; reaching for

7 In A Heartbeat Experiential Sensory Awareness Conference

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SAF Publications 1) A TASTE OF SENSORY AWARENESS, by Charlotte Selver. An 9) HEINRICH JACOBY. The Work and influence of Gindler’s longtime overview of the work, with an edited transcript of a session from the 1987 collaborator, summaries of his books, interviews with his students, includ- NY Open Center workshop. 38 pages. ing his editor and colleague Sophie Ludwig. 46 pages with photos. 5) ELSA GINDLER, Vol. 1. Memorial to the originator of the work we 10) EMMI PIKLER. Dr. Emmi Pikler, Hungarian pediatrician, whose revo- know as Sensory Awareness. Excerpts from Gindler’s letters, an article by lutionary practice and philosophy about earliest childhood upbringing has her, and reports from her students; including Ch. Selver. 44 pages, with been very influential in Europe. Contains extensive selections from Dr. photos (1978). * Pikler’s first book, Peaceful Babies - Contented Mothers, and a paper by 6) ELSA GINDLER, Vol. 2. Memories from Gindler students and an arti- Judith Falk, M.D., then director of the Emmi Pikler Methodological Institute cle about Heinrich Jacoby, innovative educator and colleague of Gindler. for Residential Nurseries. 48 pages, with many photos of young children. 44 pages, with photos. * 11) CHARLOTTE SELVER, Vol. 1. Sensory Awareness And Our Attitude 8) ELFRIEDE HENGSTENBERG. This issue embraces her own studies Toward Life. Collected lectures and texts. Containing: Sensory Awareness with Gindler and Jacoby, her work with children, and biographical notes. and Our Attitude Toward Life; Sensory Awareness & Total Functioning; She was closely involved with Emmi Pikler’s discoveries. 46 pages, with Report on Work in Sensory Awareness & Total Functioning; To See photos. Without Eyes...; On Breathing; On Being in Touch With Oneself. 8 ECENT OOKS T17 ON THE WORK OF CHARLOTTE SELVER. R B and CHARLOTTE SELVER ABOUT HERSELF TR 12) EVERY MOMENT IS A MOMENT. A Journal with Words of Charlotte Green Gulch 12-4-99 Selver from her 102 years of living and over 75 years of offering the work T18TR HIP JOINTS AND LEGS, Santa Barbara, 4-1-00 of Sensory Awareness. (125 pages, with many color and black-and-white T19TR COMING BACK TO EXPERIENCING, Santa Barbara, 4-2-00 pictures.) T20TR BREATHING AND THE DIAPHRAGM, 13) WAKING UP: THE WORK OF CHARLOTTE SELVER, by William C. Study Period, Green Gulch, 5-12-00 Littlewood with Mary Alice Roche. Talks about Sensory Awareness, T21TR GIVING UP DOING, Barra de Navidad, Mexico, 1-19-01 Reports, Experiments, and Exchanges with Her Students. 140 pages. T22TR BEING FULLY PRESENT, Monhegan, 8-16-01 * available in German translation. T23TR ARE YOU TUNED IN? Monhegan, 8-6-01 Audio Tapes from Workshops with Charlotte Selver T24TR BREATH AND HEARTBEAT, Monhegan, 8-13-01 T6TR EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE OF THE HEAD. T25TR NATURAL OR PERFORMED? -- A TIGHTROPE WALK Leaders Study Group 1990, class 7-3-90 p.m. Monhegan, 8-3-01 T7TR BECOMING READY - BEING TUNED IN. Audio Tape in German Leaders Study Group 1990, class 7-19-90 G1TR VOM NACKEN ZUM GANZEN MENSCHEN,St. Ulrich, 10.7.01 T8TR FINDING MOVEMENT THAT IS TRUE. Green Gulch Study Group 1993, class 4-1-93. TR TRANSCRIPTS. TR indicates that a transcript for this tape is available for an additional $5. T9TR LEARNING TO RECEIVE. Monhegan Island, 7-30-92. Check our web site for a complete list of publications. T10TR LEARNING THROUGH SENSING. Green Gulch, 11-14-77. Each tape is of an actual class in the Sensory Awareness Work, and T11TR FREEING THE EYES - BEING OPEN FOR SEEING. Green Gulch Study Group 1993, class 3-31-93 is intended for people wishing to experiment along with the work as it unfolds during the class. T12TR WAKING UP - BECOMING RESPONS-ABLE. Green Gulch Study Group 1988, class 5-2-88 T13TR PERMITTING INNER ACTIVITIES. Monhegan Island, 7-31-80. T14TR BREATHING AND FULL REACTIVITY. For faster mail service to Europe for the above publications, and/or Monhegan Island, 7-28-92 for a list of German publications related to Sensory Awareness, (includ- T15TR EXPLORATIONS ON SITTING. Green Gulch, 2-27-00 ing several translations of SAF publications), write to: T16TR CHARLOTTE SELVER TALKS ABOUT HER EARLY LIFE AND Wege der Entfaltung e. V., Mauerkircherstrasse 11 STUDY. Green Gulch, 12-5-99. 81679 München, Germany Order online or send your order and payment to: Sensory Awareness Foundation, 955 Vernal Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 If you have any questions call: (415) 383-1961, or e-mail: [email protected] (Please make checks payable to Sensory Awareness Foundation)

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